somehow i feel younger now after coming back.



a couple of pounds more in my carry bag, a couple of bruises and blueblacks more on my legs, a couple of pimples and tanlines more on my face and body, a couple of more impressive lame jokes added to my stocklist, and a couple of friends added to my inventory.

lame games, white-water rafting, caving, climbing, group bonding activities [minus glue and tape] aside, essentially it was a get-to-together session for everyone from different sports groups and martial arts groups.

no pictures yet because i'm lazy to upload; so many people were trigger happy and snapped so many photos i just felt this intense inertia stopping me from whipping my camera from my bag. and i have a feeling that n number of people will upload n x n = n number of photos onto facebook, which i have newly joined as a result of peer pressure [where n is an integer -----------> infinity. this explains why nxn would be close to infinity as well.]

i'm really glad taicho told me and nono to go for the trip, despite having to miss shuey doey's birthday, and the kendo bbq and chalet. the packing, rush, trouble and all were definitely worth it.

i'm really glad i managed to break some invisible barriers that i had long established for myself, got to know a few people better, and had a great deal of fun.

the trigger-happy photo snapping while i was offguard, the daily postoffice-goodweather lame jokes attack, the debana kotes, nidan wazas and uchikomi men cuts aside, i'm really glad sabah was sitting next to me the whole while, on the bus, because even if he wasn't doing anything, his presence was entirely assuring.






end of the day,
the conclusion i have come up with is,

being a little more thick-skinned pays off way lot more than you can imagine.

okay, so now for some important matters that have been clogging up my email and my brain: kendo committee handover matters, the upcoming matric fair, eastwest tournament, the first training after handover, rag design, learning how to sew [kill me please], grading, etc.

then after that of course there's the welcome session, rag itself, school starting, the kendo welcome session, more tournaments, ihg, dance production, eusoff choir, more kendo practice, etc.


this coming semester looks like it's surely gonna be loads of fun.
hell, yeah.


and did i tell you?
i think my hair is growing back.
stupid ming wayne shaved his head!
how unoriginal xia, after this cb father vijay liew, who is [as his facebook status shows, vacationing in europe] and i have shaved on separate occasions 2 days apart this exact period last year.

maybe it'll set a trend for all raggers to follow;
at least one botak every eusoff rag.